An authoritative biography of the dean of American proletarian writers during the interwar years.Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary Encyclopedia Winner of the 2022 Paul Cowan NonFiction Award presented by the Peace Corps Worldwide Jewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold 18931967 was a key progressive author of his generation yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist essayist playwright poet journalist and editor Gold was the leading advocate of leftist proletarian literature in the United States between the two world wars. His acclaimed autobiographical novel Jews without Money 1930 is a vivid account of early twentiethcentury immigrant life in the tenements of Manhattans Lower East Side.